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By: The opinion Posted Aug 22, 2023, 11:07 am EDT
The first of the 18 allies of former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) charged with him for his attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential elections in Georgia turned himself in this Tuesday to Justice in the state.
Scott Hall, accused of conspiring to illegally access voter information and vote counting machines, turned himself in at the fulton county jailas it appears on the prison’s website.
The former president’s ally faces seven criminal charges, including one for violation of the RICO law, commonly used against mob bosses.
The court set his bail at $10,000.according to jail records.
All the defendants in the electoral fraud case in Georgia have until Friday at noon to voluntarily surrender to the authorities, as determined by the prosecutor, Fani Willis.
Trump confirmed this Monday on social networks that he will appear in Fulton on Thursday. He will have to post $200,000 bail to avoid jail time.
The former Republican president was indicted last week on 13 counts by a Georgia grand jury for trying to rig the results of the 2020 election in the state, where incumbent Democrat Joe Biden won narrowly.
This is Trump’s fourth criminal indictment. Two weeks ago he was charged in Washington DC with four charges for allegedly trying to reverse the result of the 2020 US elections and encouraging the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Besides, in New York has been indicted on 34 counts for alleged irregular payments to the porn actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he had an “affair” in the past, to buy his silence during the 2016 election campaign.
His other criminal case is in Florida, where he is charged with 40 counts of illegally removing classified documents from the White House and keeping classified documents in his Mar-a-Lago mansion.
With information from Efe.
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